winter storms from the pacific northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, we ve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. coastal flooding, gail forced winds, blizzard conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the ohio turnpike that took one life at least. we re also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. c cnn polo sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at o hare. we begin with polo sandoval. what can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what they re facing tonight? reporter: it is going to be a very long frigid night, jim for county officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of stranded cars inn erie county and rescuig people inside. officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9:30 this morning a driving ban hoping people would stay
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Will be a little bit l better but wait until tomorrow afternoon before you start get out there and looking around to clean up from this huge mess. i m struck by the geographic scope of the storm. we ve had a lot of concentration on its effect on the coast particularly negotiating city and the new jersey coast. in the list of states i just read that have experienced death and other than new york, it was one each. it included west virginia. what is a storm doing in west virginia? how did a hurricane occur that far inland? it s a blizzard with snow, a snowacane. that s unheard of. jim cantore, he said this was the coldest hurricane he s ever covered in his entire life. it doesn t make sense. such a strange event. the storm sizewise was like the